Tension-device protector



3 1H. MUINONEN.

TENSION DEVICE PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12. I9I9- I Patented Mar. 9, 1920.

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TENSION-DEVICE PROTECTOR;

Specification of Letters latent.

Application filed m 12, 1919. Serial no. 296,520. 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIsKIAsMUmoNnN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Negaunee, in the county. of Marquette and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tension-.Device Protectors, of which the following is a specification. Y

This invention relates to means for pro-, tecting the tension, device of a shoe sewing machine from the wax and from the flame for heating the wax pot.

The principal object of the invention is to plate for, preventing the flame from reachmg the thread at the tension device; i

Another object of the invention is to provide means for supporting the tension device a distance above the wax pot to prevent the wax from getting. on to the same. 7 a

The invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically 1 pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is aside view of the wax'pot and tension device arranged in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is an edge view; P

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the shield or plate. r

In these views '1 indicates the wax pot which is formed in the well known manner and which is secured to the shoe sewing machine in the ordinary way. 2 indicates the tension device which is also formed in the usual manner and which. is secured to the shelf 3 which is formed on the wax'pot. In carrying out my invention I locate a block I on said shelf on which the tension device rests, the parts being secured together by the screw 5. This block will raise the tensionv device well above thewaxpot so that there is no danger- 0f the wax getting on the tension disk of the tension'device.

I I also provide a shield 6 for preventing the flame, which heats the waxpot, from burning the thread at the tension device. As shown, this shield is formed of a plate of metal or the like Jwhich is provided with a downwardly projecting portion 7 which is to engage the upper inner edge of the wax 'pot and this part is provided with a hole 8 to receive the screw 9 which connects the Patented Mar. 9, 1920;

wax pot with the machine. The shield is i made of sufficient size to fully protect the thread as it passes through the tensiondevice. a a v 7 It is thought from the foregoing descripof my invention will be readily apparent.

I desire it to be understood that I may.

make changes in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several tion that the advantages and novelfeatures parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim. 1 V Y What I claim is F In combination with the wax pot and tension device of a shoe sewing machine, a shelf on said pot upon which the tension device rests, a screw for holding the pot to f the machine and a shield having a downwardly extending part provided with an opening for receiving said screw and its other part being fiat and extending-at right angles from the pot for-protecting the thread onth'c tension device from the heating means for the pot. V

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

. I-IISKIAS MUINONEN. 

